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Eighteen Palestinians were killed and 35 wounded in an IAF strike in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City that hit the house of Gaza's police chief and a mosque on Saturday night, said Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, the Gaza health ministry spokesman. A later report said three more people were killed in Rafah, while five others were wounded.
A Hamas source said the police chief, Tayseer Al-Batsh, was in a critical condition and most of the dead were from the same family.
The army attacked a total of 109 terror targets in the Strip on Saturday: among them 59 hidden rocket launchers, 23 homes of senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, 2 military complexes and training camps, 17 sites to store and manufacture weaponry and 8 tunnels.
According to the Palestinians, the overall total of Palestinian casualties has reached 151 killed and over 1,000 wounded by the end of the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge, with most of the casualties said coming from the civilian population.
Among the houses hit were the homes of the head of Hamas' rockets unit, and the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket production.
The Beit Lahia home of the Hamas commander was used as a control and command center for the organization and several rocket launchers were hidden there.
In one of the strikes, two Hamas terrorists and two Islamic Jihad terrorists, who the army says were responsible for rocket fire at Israel, were hit in the northern Gaza Strip.
The IAF also hit a rocket launcher in Beit Lahia that fired the rockets at central Israel.
At least six people were killed in an IAF strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. The target was reportedly the house of the sister of former Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who said two of his nephews were killed in the strike, both of whom were a part of terror activity.
Israel, meanwhile, claimed only one of Haniyeh's relatives were killed in the strike, his sister's grandson. According to Israeli sources, three known rocket launchers were the targets of the attack, Haniyeh's sister's grandson was one of them.
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